HURRICANE KALATOZOV. 63 min

In bringing the USSR the Palme d’Or of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for his masterpiece The Cranes are flying , Georgian-born director Mikhaïl Kalatozov opened an unprecedented breach in the blandness of Soviet film production and moved millions of spectators and future filmmakers…His brilliant cameraman, Sergey Urussevski, remained faithful to him for other adventures, in particular Soy Cuba, an epic ciné-poem exhumed by Scorsese and Coppola. Shot in Moscou, Tbilissi, Havana Honfleur and Paris, this film looks back at Kalatozov’complex course , very much implicated in the political, cultural and diplomatic history of the ex-USSR . With Claudia Cardinale, Enrique Pineda Barnet, Miguel Mendoza, Raul Rodriguez, Sam Wood, Kirill Razlogov, Sergueï Kapterev, Valérie Pozner, Françoise Navailh.

“ An insightful account of a reserved man who paradoxically created rapturous, expressive cinema. Collegues and historians, including Claudia Cardinale, describe the complicated way that Kalatozov made such radical works within the restrictions of filmaking in the Societ state”
Jesse Dubus Telluride Film Festival

“ The film especially illuminates the final period of his life,when The Cranes are flying took the 1958 Cannes Golden Palm and suddenly elevated this gifted director to international stature-some slight recompense for the obstructions that had plagued his youthful career in silent films.”
David Robinson – Pordenone Film Festival

Festivals:

Honfleur 2009,
Tbilissi 2009,
Fipatel 2010,
Moscou 2010,
Montreal 2010,
Pordenone 2010,
Telluride 2010,
La Rochelle 2010,
Fribourg 2011,
Seattle 2011.


Fill-up:

KALATOZICHVILI, DIRECTORS FROM TBILISSI. 8 min 30